Word: tigre
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...legal battles. When the dust settled, NIH had withdrawn its patent proposal, Watson had quit the genome project, and Venter and Fraser, a former graduate student at Buffalo whom he had married after splitting with his first wife, were off running their own center, The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), in nearby Gaithersburg...
With $70 million in long-term funding from the late biotech entrepreneur Wallace Steinberg, TIGR (pronounced tiger) finally gave Venter freedom to do what he wanted. But there was a hitch. First crack at any genes it decoded went to the nonprofit institute's commercial partner, Human Genome Sciences, led by former AIDS researcher William Haseltine...
Within a year, TIGR had published the entire genome of Haemophilus influenzae, a bacterium with nearly 2 million letters that causes meningitis and ear and respiratory infections. It was the first free-living organism to be completely sequenced. Even Watson was impressed, calling it "a great moment in science...